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Archive for November 19th, 2009

politics

Seth Williams, Philadelphia's new DA

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Hour 1
On Nov. 3, SETH WILLIAMS was elected as the city of Philadelphia's District Attorney. He's a former assistant D.A. who rose up from being abandoned as an infant in an orphanage to winning election as the city's first African American D.A. He has big plans when he takes office to transform a prosecutors office that has been led by Lynne Abraham for 19 years, including shifting to geographic-based teams of prosecutors and strengthening the Gun Violence Task Force. Seth Williams joins Marty on today’s Radio Times to talk about his plans for an office of 300 assistant prosecutors and 250 support personnel.

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health,politics

The debate over mammograms and breast exams

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Hour 2
The new recommendations of a government panel of doctors and scientists regarding the usefulness of mammograms and breast exams ignited debate among health care professionals and confusion among women of all ages. We're joined by JEFFREY TICE, internist and clinical researcher in breast cancer at the University of California, San Francisco, and MARISA WEISS, breast cancer oncologist and founder of breastcancer.org.

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